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Posted by Joe on Fri Mar 19 08:13:03 2010, in response to Re: Did anyone receive a long census form?, posted by CentrolinerDD on Mon Mar 15 22:50:30 2010. Availability and search tools have improved much in the past five years. If you are able to get to the archives at Varick and Houston Streets, the people at National Archives are most helpful, as much is available right there. However, some ordinary public library systems now subscribe to groups of research tools on the internet. Massapequa, for example, subscribes to the library version of ancestry.com---- Some for-profit firms, such as ancestry.com, have hired staff to read census forms from 1880 or 1900, for example, and enter the results digitally, so they can be searched. That was an enormous task, and errors show up despite the good handwriting in the enumerators' books back then. For example, I found the name Grace transcribed digitally as Grase, an error added to the records in this 21st century. Generally, however, you might find your ancestor in 1910 Brooklyn in less than ten minutes, with much info about those who lived in the same building. ---- Genealogical tools on the internet can get expensive, but it is possible to find helpful parts of them for free at a public library that has bought into the system. To visit the National Archives: ---- The marvel is that you quickly see an image of the very book the enumerator carried with him as he took the census. Or you see an image of the handwritten list of passengers that a captain had to submit when his ship of immigrants arrived in New York or Boston. Joe |
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